What Biochemists and Biophysicists Do. Biochemists and biophysicists study the chemical and physical principles of living things and of biological processes, such as cell development, growth, heredity, and disease.
How to understand calorie and energy density. The average person eats 3 to 5 pounds of food per day. So, if they were to eat as much in almonds as they could, that would be about 5 pounds of almonds. Since there are about 23 almonds in an ounce, that would be a total of 1840 almonds in a day.
These studies have looked at a wide range of individuals - including those with high cholesterol, normal cholesterol levels, diabetes, and who are obese - consuming anywhere between 20 to 168 g of almonds a day for 4 to 16 weeks. This is roughly equivalent to 1 to 6 handfuls of almonds a day.